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Strategic e-learning questions: Pure or blended online education? Teacher driven or automatized services? Individual, collaborative or cooperative learning? Synchronous or asynchronous communication? Paced or unpaced progression? Fixed or flexible start-up?
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E-trainModule 2. E-learning
models
A presentation by
Morten Flate Paulsen
Strategic e-learning questions:
1. Pure or blended online education?
2. Teacher driven or automatized services?
3. Individual, collaborative or cooperative learning?
4. Synchronous or asynchronous communication?
5. Paced or unpaced progression?
6. Fixed or flexible start-up?
1. Pure or blended online education?
Traditionaleducation
Distanceeducation
Pureonline
education
Blendedlearning
Pure online education
• No geographical boundaries
• No need for classrooms
• Requires comprehensive online services
Blended online education
• Often adds costs and complexity since it must handle both online and classroom activities
• The classroom activities reduce flexibility regarding time and place
• Face-to-face meetings are familiar, social and for some pedagogical purposes difficult to substitute with e-learning
2. Teacher driven or automatized services?
• A question of cost-effectiveness?
• More students – more resources?
• Few students: more teacher interaction with individual students, less course design and less automatized?
• Many students: less teacher interaction with individual students, more course design and more automatized?
Teacher driven
• Many online teachers report heavy workloads
• Teacher workloads add costs
• People accept to pay for individual access to an expert
• Students want quality feedback and swift responses from their teachers
Automatized
• Make sense if you have lots of students
• MOOCs
• Open Educational Resources
• Student support services
• Enrolment
• Certificates
3. Individual, collaborative or cooperative learning?
Flexible
individual learning
is controlled by
the student
Cooperative
learning
takes place in
networks
Collaborative
learning
depends on
groups
Cooperative online educationIndependence with the help of others
Rigid
individual learning
is controlled by
the school
Individual flexibility
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4. Synchronous or asynchronous communication?• In asynchronous communication, the message is stored in the
communication medium until the receivers find it convenient to retrieve it.
• Online forums
• Synchronous communication, could be less flexible, but allows people to communicate in real time, as they do face-to-face or in Skype. Scheduling of synchronous communication varies in flexibility. A telephone conversation can be initiated without any prior schedule, but a videoconference must usually be scheduled in advance.
Synchronous
• Real time
• Spontaneous
• Easier to make decisions
Asynchronous
• Allows more time for reflection
• More freedom in time
5. Paced or unpaced progression?
• Paced course progression means that the school set more or less rigid deadlines for class sessions, submissions, exams etc.
• Unpaced courses allow individual pacing within some boundaries
Paced progression?
• The schedule may be inconvenient for individuals
• Easier for school and teacher?
• Not access to all modules from start
• Must follow sequence
• Possible to open course before everything is developed
Unpaced progression?
• Follow your own schedule, not the school’s
• Fewer students working with the same task at the same time
• You can benefit from tracks made by students in front of you.
• Requires discipline
• Does it influence drop out?
6. Fixed or flexible start-up?
• This is an important strategic decision
• Two models with different approaches to administration, pedagogy, student support and economy
• Why have most institutions chosen fixed start-up?
• Can flexible start-up give your school a competitive edge?
Fixed start-up?
• Courses with fixed start-up require students to start at a certain time
• This time is convenient for the school, but not necessary for the student
• Some schools have several start-up dates per year.
• Course providers sometime have to cancel courses with few enrolments
Flexible start-up?
• Some students are not able to attend if the start-up date is fixed.
• Others find flexible start-up more convenient
• Institutions may recruit more students if they have flexible start-up
So, what about the E-train course?
1. Pure or blended?
2. Teacher driven or automatized?
3. Individual, collaborative or cooperative?
4. Synchronous or asynchronous?
5. Paced or unpaced?
6. Fixed or flexible start-up?
Finally
We would like to hear your experiences and thoughts on these strategic questions in the E-train course
assignments
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